Efficiency of the conversion of work of drainage to surface energy for sandstone and carbonate

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 338-347

  Seth, Siddhartha ^a,b   Morrow, Norman R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Chevron ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CARBONATE MINERALS; HYSTERESIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; POROUS MATERIALS; SANDSTONE; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WETTING;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVE; CAPILLARY PRESSURE HYSTERESIS; WETTING PHASE;

DRAINAGE;

CAPILLARITY; CARBONATE MINERALS; DRAINAGE; HYSTERESIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; POROUS MATERIALS; SANDSTONE; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WETTING;

BEREA SANDSTONE; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; CARBONATE ROCK; DISPLACEMENT; DRAINAGE; MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; SOURCE ROCK; SURFACE ENERGY; THERMODYNAMICS; WETTING;

EID: 34548390665     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/102490-pa     Document Type: Conference Paper

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